<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Folks Hope all is well out there. I have recently bitten the bullet and jumped back into the pool of Linux. I will jump straight to it as you may had this before. But I am having problems configuring two identical PCIe Gcards with Xorg and configuring with xrandr. I shall include certain outputs from certain commands. <hr size="2" width="100%"> lspci returns both cards on there corresponding bus ids 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) <hr size="2" width="100%"> xrandr 1.3 returns: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1600x900 60.0 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1152x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1600x900 60.0 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1152x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 60.0 720x400 70.1 <hr size="2" width="100%"> An Xorg -configure Fails and returns: Number of screens does not match the number of devices detected or something like that. Sorry for the half hearted desciption. Wanted to get this email out before changing my runlevel again and producing the Xorg log file again. Xorg appears to be using the NOUVEAU driver which from what I have read is a little experimental in the hope to be more free and open. <hr size="2" width="100%"> Naturally correct me if my understanding is shot. I am not bothered to much about 3d acceleration as I have no desire for gaming or the like these days. Just need to provide network admin to people remotely and would like to fire up my four monitors with a bit more control. I have managed to get them to fire up whilst diddling with the Xorg.conf file but cannot seem to get the second two screens to do anything other than clone eachother. I did read past distribution had xinerama, I guess the thing I am looking for in this fast paced change of linux development is an easier route to configuring these features without the need for major upheaval of reinstalling and trial and error. I do apologise however, since my knowledge of linux is still somewhat limited. Maybe when i know a bit more I will naturally be able to cope with this fast changing scene. Anyway thanks in advance to all, your input is much appreciated especially your time. Cheers for now. neil </body> </html>